Asus rampage III Extreme

The best solution is to buy a 100cm asus crossfire bridge off the bay. Then put your 5870's into slot 1 and slot 3. That way there is loads of room for them to breathe. Plus you can use the middle pci-e (4x slot I think) for your soundcard. That's my plan.
 
bhavv said:
havnt you had to give it back yet ??? o.O

I think Helios took the board and ran :p
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Shh, -VK- might be watching.

simulatorman said:
Helios, two questions:

Do all the fans bar the PWR one have Q-Fan control in the bios?

Can you manage the link width of any of the PCIe x 16 slots in the bios?
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You can't manage the link width, they're set at x16/x8/x16/x8 from top to bottom but using 3/4 cards will cause the x16 slots to operate at x8.

I'll have to check the Q-FAN control when I get back to it.

Flanno said:
The best solution is to buy a 100cm asus crossfire bridge off the bay. Then put your 5870's into slot 1 and slot 3. That way there is loads of room for them to breathe. Plus you can use the middle pci-e (4x slot I think) for your soundcard. That's my plan.
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That's the way it's meant to work for full x16 link width :).
 
I've already asked this early on in the thread but hering about the PCIe x might not run a full speeds depending on what slots your using for gfx i`m gonna ask again just to make sure.

What would be the best card placement for me if i`m planing on adding two gfx cards, one pci-e sound card and one pci card???

Thanks for responding.
 
1 card in the top 16x slot, another int the 3rd slot down, the soundcard in the pcixslot in the middle and the other in the spare at the bottom, you may not have room far all but im not sure. depends on the sze of ur cards.

ill givew a pic to explain in a sec ^^
 
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Here ya go, its not that clear but i think u can get the gist of it :>

http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/6884/picslots.png

First and third PCI slots willa llways run at 16x unless u go trifire.

middle slot is for soundcard (u get the hint from the size of it)

And last 2 slots preferable the PCIE slot (the black one) is for any other cards you might want to use.

correct me if i am wrong
 
Flanno said:
The best solution is to buy a 100cm asus crossfire bridge off the bay. Then put your 5870's into slot 1 and slot 3. That way there is loads of room for them to breathe. Plus you can use the middle pci-e (4x slot I think) for your soundcard. That's my plan.
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Why buy one? It comes with one in the box. And maybe you meant 100 mm :p
 
Schoieuk said:
Here ya go, its not that clear but i think u can get the gist of it :>

http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/6884/picslots.png

First and third PCI slots willa llways run at 16x unless u go trifire.

middle slot is for soundcard (u get the hint from the size of it)

And last 2 slots preferable the PCIE slot (the black one) is for any other cards you might want to use.

correct me if i am wrong
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The long black slot is a normal PCI slot which i`m gonna have to use for my TV card.

All the rest of my cards, gfx and sound card are gonna be PCIE.
 
bhavv said:
Why buy one? It comes with one in the box. And maybe you meant 100 mm :p
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Yes 100mm. My last Rampage II didn't come with a long crossfire bridge. Same with my evga classified. Pain in the ass running 2 cards with the stock crossfire bridge which comes with the cards. It's too short so you end up running 2 cards close together. News to me the rampage III comes with a 100mm connector. :confused:

To be honest I'd probably be better off keeping my current board, replace my X-Fi with a Xonar PCI card and put it in the middle pci slot between both video cards. Not sure what to do really.
 
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For different builds I've had 4 saphire 5870, an asus 5870, and am now running the factory clocked powercolor 5870's. All came with standard bridge. I didn't even know motherboards came with crossfire bridges, just sli bridges.

Did Helios confirm on the thread the board comes with a long bridge or is this just assumption ?
 
Schoieuk said:
Here ya go, its not that clear but i think u can get the gist of it :>

http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/6884/picslots.png

First and third PCI slots willa llways run at 16x unless u go trifire.

middle slot is for soundcard (u get the hint from the size of it)

And last 2 slots preferable the PCIE slot (the black one) is for any other cards you might want to use.

correct me if i am wrong
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That's right :).

simulatorman said:
I may know before you as I now have one on order. :D
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Ok there's the CPU fan header and 3 chassis fans that have Q-FAN control. The PWRFan and 3x OPT fans don't.
 
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Flanno said:
Yes 100mm. My last Rampage II didn't come with a long crossfire bridge.
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The Rampage II didnt have slots as wide as this one, hence it didnt need them. If you look at the reviews that are up for this one, you will se it comes with the longer crossfire cable :)

Helios, does this look like the larger chipset cooler will fit underneath the Triton 88:

asustriton88mb4b.jpg
 
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bhavv said:
The Rampage II didnt have slots as wide as this one, hence it didnt need them. If you look at the reviews that are up for this one, you will se it comes with the longer crossfire cable :)

Helios, does this look like the larger chipset cooler will fit underneath the Triton 88:
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Kinda hard to tell, you wouldn't have the dimensions, would you? So I compare it against my Noctua.

There's a picture of the crossfire cable here: http://www.vortez.co.uk/contenttell...rampage_iii_extreme_motherboard_review,5.html

The long one that is still in the packaging is an SLI cable.
 
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So guys is it worth replacing my Classified 759 with the Rampage III ?

I got the 759 from a mate for a really really good price after my last board died. It's got the Nforce200 chipset (which I know runs hot and can introduce some lag), but still have the option of running 3 gpu's in 16x16x16x. Right now running 2 gpu's. And while I am not a huge overclocker, I have my i930 at 4ghz with a H50. May eventually watercool. Temps are pretty decent. The Rampage III would probably have better temps all round I'm sure as the northbridge on my 759 does get hot but have sorted that with a small 40mm fan and I have the rear 140mm fan intaking cool air which helps the mosfets.

So other than usb3 and sata3, and cooler runing, is it worth getting the RIII ? Should I stick with the classified.
 
Helios1234 said:
I see Gigabyte is also using the Molex plugs and the 2 12v CPU power connectors. This should be interesting.
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Can you get an adaptor for the extra 8 pin cpu power connector ? as i wouldnt fancy buying yet another power supply aswell as the card.
 
bhavv said:
The dimensions are 153x122x125mm (HWD).

To me it looks like the larger heatsink would collide with the angled heatpipes.
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I see what you mean but I can't really say for sure without actually having it. It's really not something major to worry about though.

andyr said:
Can you get an adaptor for the extra 8 pin cpu power connector ? as i wouldnt fancy buying yet another power supply aswell as the card.
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I don't think you can but you don't need both cpu power connectors to run the board. It's just for extra juice during extreme overclocking etc.
 
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